Document #1147855
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
No information on whether Pentecostals in Romania are eligible for alternative military service could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate. For copies of the legislation pertaining to alternative service and for analyses of the alternative service in Romania, please consult ROM28665.E of 20 January 1998, ROM33365.E of 24 December 1999, and ROM34636.E of 12 June 2000.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Sources Consulted
Correspondence sent to two sources
IRB databases
NEXIS/LEXIS
Internet sites including:
Amnesty International
Christian Solidarity
European Bureau for Conscientious
Objection
European Campaign against
Conscription
International Christian Concern
International Coalition for Religious
Freedom
Peacenews
United Pentecostal Church
International
War Resisters League
World News Connection